Trojan Rally Falls Short in Home Opener

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It was the same story for the Varsity Baseball team on Monday afternoon as they opened the home portion of their schedule as they hosted the Broughton Capitals at Trojan Park. The Trojans fell behind early and made a valiant comeback before falling to Broughton 7-5.

Broughton jumped on the board first as after a walk and error allowed the inning to continue, Capital first basemen, Thomas Butler, homered just over the left field wall to make it 3-0 Caps. That would be the biggest mistake that Garner started Will Norris made on Monday in his varsity debut.

Norris would give up four more runs over the course of the next three innings, however, of the seven totals runs he allowed, only four of them were earned, due to the fact the Trojans made a season high five errors on Monday afternoon.

Despite the pour fielding performance, the Trojans refused to quit as in the bottom of the fifth, the Trojans found some life offensively. With one out, Jesse Fisher decided to take matters into his own hands after he was hit by a pitch, Fisher, stole second and third to put himself in scoring position and later scored on an Alec Hulmes double to right field. Colin Perry also reached base via a walk and later scored on a Hunter Brown RBI single and Hulmes would also cross home in the fifth on a Jackson Pleasant double to cut the lead to 7-3.

After holding Broughton scoreless in the top of the sixth, Garner again found some offense as with one out, Fisher again took matters into his own hands with a infield bunt single down the third base line to put himself on base.

Colin Perry was then hit in the back and Alec Hulmes singled to load the bases. Hunter Brown followed Hulmes and walked to bring home a run and Jackson Pleasant had a sacrifice fly to drive in the fifth Trojan run of the game.

However, Garner would get no closer as in the seventh, the Trojans went one, two, three and will hope for better luck on Tuesday when they host the West Johnston Wildcats in the Conference opener. The JV team will play at 4 followed by the Varsity at 7:00 at Trojan Park.

Winning Pitcher: Charley Goode - 2/3 Innings, 3 Hits, 3 Runs, 1 Walk, 1 Hit Batter, 1 strikeout
Losing Pitcher: Will Norris - 4 Innings, 5 Hits, 6 Runs, 4 Earned Runs, 3 Walks, 2 Strikeouts

Save: Cam Gombatz - 1 Inning, 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 Walks, 1 Strikeout